The case brought by 7 500 South African mineworkers against UK multinational, Cape Plc, has taken a new turn as London-based and local lawyers join forces and challenge the terms of Gencor’s proposed unbundling in the Cape Town High Court.
The US and Britain lack ”killer” intelligence that will prove conclusively that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, according to sources in London and New York.
Ariel Sharon has laid out his terms for Palestinian independence with a vision of an emasculated and demilitarised state built on less than half the land of the occupied territories, and without Yasser Arafat as its leader.
UN weapons inspectors have rejected criticism by the US and Iraq that they are failing to do their job properly.
United Nations weapons inspectors have said that Iraq provided full cooperation yesterday when they visited sites near Baghdad to hunt for illegal weapons.
Troubled British media group Reuters is poised to announce deep job cuts in its editorial workforce as it strives to contain the impact of a steep decline in revenues, the Financial Times said on Thursday.
British police have arrested a woman in connection with the murder of a boy whose mutilated torso was found in a river, a case which has prompted an extended probe into a suspected ritual killing.
UN weapons inspectors begin their work in Iraq today, launching a tense new chapter in the confrontation with Saddam Hussein in which war and peace are likely to hinge on the legal interpretation of two words: ”material breach”.
Jose Manuel Trillanes wrapped his yellow oilskins tight around his body and pointed out to where gale force winds were churning up the Atlantic ocean beyond the small fishing port of O Grove.
Leigh Day and Company, the lawyers representing several thousand South African asbestosis victims, said they would take legal action against Cape Plc for non-payment of expenses.
The biggest group of British companies since the Gulf War plans to travel to the Baghdad Trade Fair in November, brushing off threats of war and defying government advice to steer clear of Iraq.
Beer brands such as Castle, Ursus and Zero Clock may mean little to most Americans, but in emerging markets they have helped establish SAB as a leading global competitor.
The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, clashed with Washington yesterday over the enforcement of no-fly zones in Iraq by American and British warplanes.
Belgium’s 19th century royal palace has been given an unconventional makeover by one of the country’s most innovative artists, who has taken the unusual step of glueing 1,6-metre iridescent green beetles to its ceiling.
It was like the ”first day at school”, said a beaming Romano Prodi, surveying the European parliament yesterday as new boys and girls from Lithuania to Slovakia gave a foretaste of the future of the continent.
The German ambassador has attacked history teaching in British schools, claiming it fuels xenophobia by focusing solely on his country’s Nazi past. Thomas Matussek’s comments follow an assault on two German schoolboys by a gang of youths in London.
Concern over their daughter’s safety, following the recent murder of two 10-year-olds, have led her parents to allow a controversial British cybernetics expert to implant a tracking device in her.
Up to 10-million US health workers, police officers and firefighters are to be vaccinated against smallpox, according to a Bush administration official.
British forces geared up Friday for a major logistical exercise on home ground, as the defence ministry denied a press report that advance parties of British troops would soon deploy to Kuwait.
The only human contact Peter Shaw was allowed during the past four months was the sight of his kidnappers’ hands passing food down into the dank, underground hole where he lay chained at the neck.
An Islamist state government in northern Nigeria has issued a fatwa urging Muslims to kill the British-educated author of the newspaper article on the Miss World contest which triggered three days of religious rioting that left more than 220 people dead.
It’s a key belief of conspiracy theorists that the state has shady powers, and so it was remarkable to be told this week that Britain’s head of state may share such fears.
Kenyan police were last night questioning 12 people — all foreigners — as an international investigation was stepped up to identify the perpetrators of the first attack on Israeli targets attributed to the al-Qaeda terrorist network.
One of Burundi’s main rebel groups agreed a ceasefire with the government yesterday after months of peace talks, raising hopes that a nine-year-long civil war which has left hundreds of thousands dead may be nearing an end.
The brains of Germany’s most notorious far-left urban guerrillas were taken away to be examined by scientists, secretly preserved in formaldehyde for a quarter of a century — and have now mostly vanished without trace.
Forty-five countries engaged in the diamond trade finally signed a new scheme to stem the flow of ”conflict” diamonds yesterday.
Huge airships hovering miles above major cities could replace satellites as providers of telephone and Internet services in as little as five years.
DUTCH far-right leader Pim Fortuyn, said to have been assassinated by a disgruntled animal rights activist, is to be buried in Italy.
British criminologists believe they can cut youth crime by increasing the content of fresh fruit and vegetables in the diet, following a study at a youth prison, details of which were published on Tuesday.
Indonesia has arrested the man they had named as the mastermind of last month’s Bali bombings which killed almost 200 people, the national police chief announced.
Environmental campaigners are to converge on Shell’s London headquarters this morning to highlight the company’s ”shocking” pollution record.
The US and the UN ignored warnings from a secret Taliban emissary weeks before September 11 last year that Osama bin Laden was planning a huge attack on America.